Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski